Moving through the impossible to the possible

"The demands upon an English course are not small. It must develop both heart and mind; it must quicken the perception and broaden the sympathy; it must liven the powers of observation and emphasize the good in human nature; it must quicken the imagination and strengthen a love of honesty; it must awaken appreciation and give balance to judgment; it must give ease, force, sincerity to expression; in short, if it does not create the philanthropist, the genius, it must at least be a valuable asset in the evolution of such, from the Clara Bartons and Tennysons and Thhackerays down, or up, to the Edisons. By concentrated thought the scholar thinks his way through the impossible to the possible." Alta L. Stanton in Toward Cultivating Concentration